The strength of this shot is down to the contrast between the subtlety of the cloud formations and the man-made cross-hatching of the snow in the foreground. And the light picking out the roof line is a superb dividing line

I always under-expose by half a stop with the camera set on matrix metering and that usually works for me. It’s one of those situations where it really pays to check the histogram for blown highlights and adjust and re-shoot if necessary . That’s something I am not good at remembering to do.